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Then lay siege to it: Erect siege works against it, build a ramp up to it, set up camps against it and put battering rams around it.
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Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry, to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp and to erect siege works.
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“I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one.
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He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you.
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Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.
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They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”
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In visions of God he took me to the land of Israel and set me on a very high mountain, on whose south side were some buildings that looked like a city.
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The building facing the temple courtyard on the west side was seventy cubits wide. The wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.
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Then he measured the temple; it was a hundred cubits long, and the temple courtyard and the building with its walls were also a hundred cubits long.
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Then he measured the length of the building facing the courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The main hall, the inner sanctuary and the portico facing the court,
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The building whose door faced north was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide.
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Now the upper rooms were narrower, for the galleries took more space from them than from the rooms on the lower and middle floors of the building.
